Back At It
The past 5 days have been awesome. I had 5 days off from work. I celebrated my 30th birthday. I rocked with my friends, I dined and joked with my family, I got some nice gifts, drank a lot, and wrapped it all up with a wicked-good double-down. I went on a date, where-in which we hit a casino and I won $67 dollars. You top THAT.
I put down $25 for chips, hesitantly. After dropping a couple $5 hands, I started winning back, understanding the rules, doubling down on a couple of 11s and winning once on that.
Yep, 30 years old, no kids, no ex-wives, nothing but a great life and great friends nearby to share it with. There’s an unwritten code of happiness in this country that holds near the top the duties of Spouse and Parent. Most people my age, for whatever reason, feel that combining those duties will equal sudden Happiness and Contentment. Well it seems to lead to divorce, mostly, but hey, why not go in with blinders? I’m neither an Ex nor Expecting, and many folks try to make me feel like an alien for being single and happy. I don’t need a book or a “very special episode of Friends” to show me that relationships take work. I think it’s alien to expect daily perfection from another human just because they can’t legally walk out on you, just because you got dressed up and repeated something someone else wrote for millions to recite every weekend. That’s not special.
So after 5 days off I'm back at work with very little sleep but many good feelings and memories to keep me going. I am also sitting here staring at a tempermental database, and listening to a co-worker's ironic ringtones emanating from his cellular communication device. Ironic because it’s the five-note dirge from “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.” In the film, the notes represented a beacon sent far away to an advanced race. Humans sat in anticipation, hoping for resolution or revolution, disillusioned with the ways of today, hoping for a Utopian tomorrow.
It was Bill in accounting.
I knew that guy was an alien.
This is awesome...
My Name's Geoff Lott, Thank You and Good Night!
Geoff Lott: Comedian, Writer, Philosoteur. I am here to amuse you, not entertain you. If not now, later. If not you, somebody else. If you can't laugh at yourself, that's just fine, too. I will do it for you.
